A pro-Israeli rally drew a crowd of hundreds earlier this month to Lykes Gaslight Square Park in downtown Tampa in response to the Israel- Gaza conflict.
The rally was not sponsored by any specific organization, but organizers included prominent members of both the Jewish and Christian communities. More...

The famous quote from Golda Meir was evoked by Chaim Shacham, consul general of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico, as he updated the Tampa Bay community on the state of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in particular the ground war. More...

Editor’s Note: Ashdod is a southern Israeli port town, situated 23 miles from the Gaza Strip ( about the same distance as from Tampa to Plant City). During the conflict with Gaza, the director of the Ashdod Absorption Center where immigrants stay when they first arrive in Israel, reported the city has been barraged with short range missiles. More...

The murder of an Orthodox rabbi, vandalism to the car of a mourner attending a memorial service for the rabbi, and two other acts of anti-Semitic vandalism in the Miami, all as conflict raged and ebbed between Israel and Hamas, triggered heightened security concerns not just in South Florida, but in the Tampa Bay area, too. More...